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The Greek 'bail-out' as illustrated by Ben Jennings

By Pontus Westerberg, 1 March 2012

In what is essentially a return to 1990s style structural adjustment, the Greek government has this week been forced to cut the minimum wage by another 22%, pensions by another 13%, rewrite its constitution to prioritise debt repayment and sell off even more public companies in return for another EU 'bail out'. Here is cartoonist Ben Jennings' take on it.

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Pontus is web officer at WDM. He looks after WDM’s websites, social media channels, emails and anything else digital.

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